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Showing Original Post only (View all)Finally! A Democrat in Congress Calls Out Hillary Clinton's Hawkishness [View all]
Iraq veteran Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) quits DNC leadership to protest Hillary Clinton's foreign policy failures.
Anthony L. Fisher|Mar. 2, 2016
Hillary Clinton's Super Tuesday thumping her only rival for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination has revivied the perception of inevitability that she will be the party's nominee. However, one sitting Democratic member of Congress decided to put her career on the line, days before the slew of primaries, to raise awareness of Clinton's career-long track record of supporting failed military interventions and general unrepentant hawkishness.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) resigned her leadership post on the Democratic National Committee this past weekend, saying she had tired of the requirement to maintain "neutral ground" during the primary process, and endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)
Unlike the conscientious objector she supports for president, Gabbard can't be painted as a naive peacenik. She is an Iraq War veteran and still serves as a major in the Hawaii Army National Guard. It is her familiarity with the horrors of war, as well as the big government-gobbling waste produced by it, that informed her decision to split from the party leadership.
During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" this past Monday, Gabbard said, "There has not been a clear conversation about the contrast between our two candidates when it comes to questions of war and peace. So this is why I resigned from the DNC."
Speaking with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC last night, Gabbard added, "Secretary Clinton has a record and positions that will take us into a future that will include more interventionist wars of regime change."...snip
Read More: http://reason.com/blog/2016/03/02/democrat-congress-hillary-clinton-hawk
Official House Page: http://gabbard.house.gov/
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Finally! A Democrat in Congress Calls Out Hillary Clinton's Hawkishness [View all]
nationalize the fed
Mar 2016
OP
Just in time. We cannot afford to nominate the Trojan Horse that could well lose us
Betty Karlson
Mar 2016
#82
You DO realize that Gabbard is one of the GOP's favorite Dems, not only because he's very hawkish
EffieBlack
Mar 2016
#6
well debbie wasserman schultz sure doesnt like her, and DWS never hangs out with Republicans, right?
Warren DeMontague
Mar 2016
#50
That may well be so but it doesn't change the fact that Gabbard is a poor poster girl for liberals.
randome
Mar 2016
#76
Bingo! And Bernie brought in more $$ then Hillary in Jan. he raised even MORE than Jan in Feb!
peacebird
Mar 2016
#55
Article has several things wrong, starting with Bernie is not a conscientious objector.
stevenleser
Mar 2016
#9
Please explain your second point. If one looks at the webpage of the US Senate, one sees that...
xocet
Mar 2016
#102
Thank you Tulsi! She knows what these wars so cavalierly supported by Hillary do the victims
sabrina 1
Mar 2016
#12
Ah, so you're fine with the total destruction of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen,....
delrem
Mar 2016
#21